So America was known for its widespread legal and recreational drug use until 1937?
Show me the successful societies that tolerate legal and widespread recreational drug use.
You've got the world turned upside down Moonman. -- historically, most successful societies have operated under a 'victorian compromise' system, -- wherein there are rarely enforced 'laws' [in our case unconstitutional laws], that are used only when major substance abuse problems occur, -- problems brought on [usually] because of other stress factors.
Maybe the pro drug people would like to live in a pre-1937 world
Many would; -- they date the rise of american socialism back to the 'New Deal'.
just like the jihadists would like to go back to the 8th century.
Yep, there are great similarities between prohibitionists & jihadists.
Some drug use may have been legal in earlier times simply because there were so few people doing it. That could have been because of low availability or cultural attitude.
Gin was much abused in the early days of the industrial revolution in Europe -- opium in China. People survived without prohibitions.
There is no successful society today that tolerates widespread recreational drug use, just as there are no successful Libertarian or Anarchist societies. There is a reason for that.
Yep, -- Its mostly because socialism has triumphed over constitutionalism. -- The USA is the last of the free republics, -- and is fading fast. -- Prohibitionists like you will have much to answer for if we go under.
The founding fathers were for independence and against the abuses of monarchy. They were especially interested in all citizens having rights, not just nobility. They weren't Libertarians or Anarchists.
The constitutional republic we still have on paper is very libertarian in principle. -- Perhaps this is why it scares you.
It did not take long for President Washington to command an army (larger than the one he commanded in the Revolutionary War) to put down then Whiskey Rebellion, which was the first major test of the strength and resolve of the young federal government.
The Whiskey Rebellion was all about taxes. It had nothing to do with prohibition.
You really should read a bit more history.
And I have thought that G. Washington thereby betrayed the Revolution.